Sure enough, after listening to Dai Yan's words, King Qi was not angry, but just laughed. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

The King of Wei on the side asked Dai Yan: "Ziyan, what you said is something that everyone knows; Even if you don't recognize my Wei country, my Wei country has a history of hundreds of years, and it still exists. So what's the point of what I'm doing here? ”

Dai Yan replied: "King Wei, the kid wants to correct one of your opinions, some common sense that seems ordinary is actually not so ordinary, if you have doubts about this, you can ask Hui about the knowledge of heaven and earth." The kid once debated with Megumi and denied the common sense that the sky is round and the place is round. And what is reasonable and legal, of course, we need to speak out, and we need to recognize each other. ”

Later, the king of Wei really asked Hui Shi personally about the debate between the two, and Hui Shi did not dare to hide it, and reported it truthfully to the king of Wei.

And Kuang Zhang listened to it for a long time, and he could understand what Dai Yan meant, but he always felt that something was wrong, but he couldn't tell what was wrong.

Then the king of Qi said to Dai Yan: "Ziyan, since you said that countries recognize each other, do we need to make an oath on this content?" ”

"Absolutely." Dai Yan said, "This kind of content is to determine the relationship between countries, and of course we need to take an oath." However, this oath is different from the past, which was mostly used for alliances between nations. However, in this oath, countries do not necessarily need to form alliances, but only to determine the relationship between them. And it is a little inappropriate to use the word covenant to confirm the relationship between countries, the kid thinks it is better to use the treaty instead, what does the king of Qi think? ”

Treaty? That's not bad. King Qi thought secretly. Speaking of which, if this young prince of Song wanted to propose an alliance between Song and Qi, he really wouldn't agree.

What did the Zhou Dynasty give to the Jiang family when it divided the Qi Kingdom? It's just the name of an Oriental Fangbo. The Jiang Qi Kingdom relied on this name to conquer Dongyi and became the famous Haidong Shengguo throughout the world. In the era of Duke Huan of Qi, Guan Zhong suggested that Duke Huan raise the banner of "respecting the king and conquering the emperor" and dominate the world. However, the Qi State relied on the Yi to conquer many small countries by the sea in the east, and finally made these small Yi countries become part of the Qi State.

And in today's Warring States Period, a world of great contention, Dongyi has almost been wiped out. The only ones who have survived to the present day are the kings of small countries who are now present to participate in the meeting of the prime minister. The reason why Qi did not annex these small states was not because of benevolence, but because it was following the expansion strategy of Chu. Control the internal affairs of the country first, and then slowly assimilate it when the time is ripe, and finally turn it into a county of the Qi state. However, the Qi State is also facing a great problem now, how to expand? To the east of the country of Qi is the vast sea, which has no land. To the west of Qi are Zhao and Wei, which are all separated from the old power of Jin, and they are strong, and it is very difficult for Qi to deal with them. The Yan Kingdom in the north is a fierce people, and most of the land in the north is barren and has little development value. And the only direction in which Qi can expand, and the direction in which it can expand its territory, can only be to the south. From this point of view, the Song State, which was blocking the expansion of Qi to the south, was the biggest obstacle to Qi.

Although the Song State cannot be regarded as a weak country in the world at this time, it is certainly easier to pinch than the countries of Yan, Zhao, and Wei. Moreover, the land of the Song State is 500 li (the actual territory is about 100,000 square kilometers), all of which are anointed land, and the Qi State has been jealous of the land of the Song State for a long time. If the Song State really formed an alliance with the Qi State, what reason would the Qi State find to trouble the Song State in the future?

Then the king of Qi agreed to Dai Yan's request, and then the king of Qi lobbied the king of Wei to agree to such a treaty to determine the relationship between the countries. Because this place is located in the country of Teng, located in Xuzhou in ancient Kyushu, everyone calls this treaty the Xuzhou Treaty.

Dai Yan proposed that since this treaty is to determine the jurisprudence of various countries and the relations between countries, of course, it can only be written into the principles recognized by all countries, and Dai Yan, who is slightly controversial, did not include it. Therefore, the content of this treaty finally formed is very simple: 1. The states of Qi, Wei, Korea, Song, and Zhongshan recognize each other as independent sovereign states, and Korea, Song, and Zhongshan recognize Qi and Wei as kingdoms and call their kings kings. 2. There are two kinds of relations between states, a state of peace and a state of war, in which one country is at war against another and war must declare war in advance. 3. Envoys of various countries to other countries shall regard them as representatives of the monarch of that country and shall treat them with courtesy; The envoys of a country shall have diplomatic immunity, and the two countries shall have intersecting relations and shall not cut off envoys.

Dai Yan originally wanted to write that countries should be equal to each other, but he gave up this article after considering the following. What is the reason for the king of Xuzhou? Isn't it that Wei and Qi want to divide the hegemony of the world equally? Dai Yan asked countries to conclude this treaty not to seize the limelight of the prime minister, but only to establish a principle of interaction between countries. In addition to the first article of the Xuzhou Treaty, which was proposed by Dai Yan, the remaining two were common practices since the Spring and Autumn Period, and Dai Yan just wrote them in the form of books and made them public.

And this time, the treaty was also determined in the form of an oath to the sky. Compared with the oath made by the two prime ministers of Wei and Qi before, the princes and nobles present still felt that this treaty was more effective, because although this treaty was simple, no one would break it. And whether the sphere of influence delineated by the covenant of King Wei Qi is disputed at that time, it really has to be said.

There was such an episode in the meeting of the prime minister of Xuzhou, which also made the princes and nobles present look at Ziyan, the young prince of the Song Kingdom. No one thought that a young man could determine the rules of interaction between countries. These princes and nobles are eager to go back and teach their sons and grandchildren a lesson, and learn from this prince of the Song Kingdom.

Since then, the Xuzhou Xiangwang meeting has dissipated, but its impact on the whole world has only just begun.

In the meeting of the king of Xuzhou, the king of Zhou sent an envoy to the Duke of Western Zhou to participate, and gave the two kings of Qi and Wei. However, even with such a high level of sincerity, the two kings of Wei and Qi did not have a good face towards the Zhou envoys, and almost treated them as envoys of small countries. And the most painful thing for King Zhou was the Treaty of Xuzhou that the countries mentioned by Gongzi Yan of Song State recognized each other, which was simply a slap in the face of King Zhou. The king of Zhou has now declined so much that the only remaining power is to give the state legitimacy by dividing the feuds. Now that the Treaty of Xuzhou has been signed, the King of Zhou does not even have this power. The mood of Wang Jibian in such a new Zhou can be imagined, but he can't do anything, and he can only get drunk and dream of death every day.

And the protagonist of this meeting of the kings, Qi Wang Tian Yinqi, was very happy, because this meeting of the kings determined his status as "king", and from then on, small countries such as Zou, Lu, and Teng must treat him with the etiquette of treating the Son of Heaven. And he can also use this power to penetrate the power of Qi deeper into the middle of these small countries, which is what is really beneficial to Qi State. And the hero who completed his hegemony and brought the Qi country to this point, of course, the king of Qi will not be stingy.

In June, King Qi carried out a series of rewards one after another. first expanded the fiefdom of Qi Xiang Zou Ji, and then added Zou Ji as a candidate. For Tian Ying, who was the first to advocate the title of king, the king of Qi named him Jingguo Jun, and the fief was the new Xue State of Qi. As a result, Tian Ying began to be called "Xue Gong". In addition, all the heroes of Qi have been rewarded. As for Tian Dai (Chen Dai), who is the most powerful in the Qi clan, the king of Qi did not hesitate to reward him, sealing him to Gaiyi and eating 10,000 households.

And for the whole joyful and noisy scene of Qi Guo, there was one person who began to fight silently, and this person was Chen Dai's younger brother Chen Zhongzi. In Chen Zhongzi's view, the state of Qi now does not pay attention to etiquette and brazenly claims the king, and the whole country celebrates, and the country of Qi has actually become an unrighteous country. And his elder brother Chen Dai, for the sizeless merit of Qi State, can have ten thousand households of food, Chen Zhongzi is deeply ashamed of this. So this noble-minded nobleman of the Qi State followed the example of Boyi Shuqi, resolutely left the Qi State and moved to the Zou State Yuling. In Yuling, Chen Zhongzi did not eat for three days, his ears had no hearing, and his eyes had no vision. He saw a plum in the tree, and the insects had eaten almost it, so he crawled over it, took it, and ate it, and swallowed it three times, until his ears regained his hearing and his eyes regained his sight. However, even though life has reached such a difficult point, Chen Zhongzi does not regret his decision at all, and he vows to heaven: for the rest of his life, he will not enter the dynasty of the defiled monarch and will not eat the food of the troubled times.

The rebellion of Chen Zhongzi, a Qi nobleman triggered by the Xiang of Xuzhou, had no effect on the happy Qi nobles. However, the news of King Xuzhou has an impact on the kings and nobles of Chu State, another big country, and it is not so simple. The King of Chu (King Chu Wei) heard the news of the King of Xuzhou, and then learned that the King of Qi had added the fiefdom of Zou Ji and sealed Tianying as the king of Jing Guojun, so he couldn't sleep well and was not in the mood to eat. In the eyes of the King of Chu, the behavior of Yu Huaisi, the prime minister of Qi and the hero of the feudal clan, did not take Chu State in his eyes at all. In the eyes of the King of Chu, the Huai River Valley has always been the sphere of influence of the Chu State, and now the Qi State has actually put his hand into the pocket of the Chu State, which is really bearable, which is unbearable. The king of Chu no longer cared about how far apart Chu and Qi was, and the distance between Qi and Chu was "incompatible", and immediately began to gather the ministers of Chu to discuss launching a war against Qi.

The state of Chu was a local feudal power and its powerful state. At this time, the people who held the real power of the Chu State were the Qu family, the Zhao family and the Jing family, who were known as the three households of the Chu State. These three families are all descendants of the former princes, married each other, and gradually controlled the military and political power of the entire Chu State, even the every move of the King of Chu needs to be affected by these three households. It can be said that the thoughts of the three households of the Chu State are the thoughts of the nobles of the Chu State.